TDD Contracts in Essex

Test-Driven Development (TDD)
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Essex requiring TDD skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited TDD over the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 29 28
Rank change year-on-year +14 -1 +1
Contract jobs citing TDD 7 5 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Essex 6.54% 2.24% 5.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.00% 2.69% 5.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 10
10th Percentile £472 £409 £464
25th Percentile £486 £479 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £485 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.62% -3.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £488 - £505
90th Percentile £500 £552 £583
East of England median daily rate £489 £493 £528
% change year-on-year -0.65% -6.64% -11.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £65.25
Median hourly rate - - £65.50
75th Percentile - - £65.75
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - -7.80%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Essex

TDD falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 100 186 241
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 93.46% 83.41% 86.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 94 153
10th Percentile £188 £190 £215
25th Percentile £313 £300 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £447 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.51% -10.60% +1.01%
75th Percentile £483 £560 £575
90th Percentile £512 £600 £624
East of England median daily rate £500 £438 £500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 50 21
10th Percentile £13.25 £11.95 £22.09
25th Percentile £18.87 £26.98 £36.25
Median hourly rate £22.50 £59.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -62.18% +3.48% +85.72%
75th Percentile £43.20 £80.00 £70.26
90th Percentile £120.00 - £79.50
East of England median hourly rate £32.07 £40.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -19.83% +90.48% +7.69%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

Job postings citing TDD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Essex.

Job vacancy trend for TDD in Essex

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Essex

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing TDD in Essex.

Daily rate trend for TDD in Essex

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing TDD in Essex.

Hourly rate trend for TDD in Essex

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Contract Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing TDD within the Essex region over the 6 months to 4 July 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Basildon +9 4 £488 -18.26% 9
Brentwood +3 1 £468 +24.67%
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East of England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) GCP
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Developer
1 5 (71.43%) Java Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Java Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Java Software Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Agile Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Agile Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) GCP Developer
3 1 (14.29%) GCP Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) GCP Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Java Programmer
3 1 (14.29%) Programmer
3 1 (14.29%) Software Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) REST
1 1 (14.29%) Spring
1 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Agile
2 5 (71.43%) Software Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 1 (14.29%) Community of Practice
4 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
4 1 (14.29%) DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Microservices
4 1 (14.29%) Pair Programming
4 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Google
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft